We have Visa!

God has blessed the Stoesz family with the last step in this phase of our adoption process. We have received Samantha's Visa today which grants us the permission to come home! Phase I was the incredible wait since we first decided to pursue adopting of Samantha, only to find that she wasn't registered.  After doing our dossier over several times, we knew that allowing God's timing would be paramount! Our stay in Ukraine has also taken a long time, at exactly 7 weeks today.

Actually this timing of 7 weeks will be much more of a normal expectation for people adopting these days because of several processes that are no longer as streamlined as they once were.  We now head into the next phase of our journey with Samantha being part of our family.  We are looking forward to our new family, and we are counting our many blessings today!

We want to thank God for all that he has done in our lives, and for the many care givers and individuals here in Ukraine that are giving their lives to help these children in Ukraine.  We especially want to thank Georgiy Fortunyev, our long time friend and translator who has done a wonderful job once again on our adoption! In addition, we want to thank Karen Springs for her hospitality and heart! Thank you goes out to the many family and friends back at home that have kept things together and helped with Rhya and Natalie! We have so much to be thankful for!

Looking forward to being home at 2:30 ish at DIA this Friday the 27th of January!

Official to travel to the USA!